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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., has been the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) since July 1999. Dr. Jackson served as a Commissioner of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to June 1999 and served as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1995 to 1999. She was the Principal Executive Officer and the official spokesman for the NRC. She served as a Consultant in semiconductor theory to AT&T Bell Laboratories ... from 1991 to 1995. She served as a Theoretical Physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1975 to 1991. She served as the Chairperson of NYSE Regulation, Inc. Dr. Jackson has been a Director of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. since June 2001, International Business Machines Corp., since September 26, 2005, Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. since 2002 and Medtronic plc since January 26, 2015. She has been an Independent Director of Marathon Oil Corporation since 2000 and FedEx Corporation since 1999. She serves as a Director at USX Corporation, Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., Electricity Innovation Institute (E2I) and Federal Express Corporation (US). She serves as a Director for Public Service Electric and Gas Company and San Diego County Credit Union. Dr. Jackson serves as a Trustee of The Brookings Institution. She is a Life Member of the M.I.T. Corporation (Board of Trustees). She serves as a Member of Board of Governors of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. She serves as a Director of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. She served as Director of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. since July 2000. She served as a Director of Sanmina, Inc. since February 2001. Dr. Jackson served as a Director of United States Steel Corp., from 2001 to January 31, 2006. She served as a Director of NYSE Regulation Inc. from November 2003 to April 29, 2009 and Medtronic, Inc., since 2002 until January 26, 2015. She served as a Director of KeyCorp since 2002, AT&T Corp., since 2001, Sealed Air Corporation since 1999 and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1987 to 1995. She served as a Director of New Jersey National Bank and Albany Molecular Research Inc. She served as a Director of NYSE Euronext, Inc. from November 2003 to April 29, 2009. She served as a Trustee of Emma Willard School. Dr. Jackson has been a Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2001 and the American Philosophical Society since 2007. She has been a member of the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) to the United States Secretary of State since July 2011. She also serves as the University Vice Chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, and co-chaired the Council’s Energy Security, Sustainability, and Innovation (ESIS) initiative. Dr. Jackson served on the Advisory Council of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). She served on several high-level commissions in the State of New Jersey, including the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. She was a member of the U.S. Department of Energy Task Force on the future of its multipurpose National Laboratories (the 1994 “Galvin” Commission). She also has served on a number of committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. In April, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Jackson serves on the U.S. Comptroller-General’s Advisory Committee for the Government Accountability Office (GAO). She has been a member of the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). She is a co-chair of the President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). In 2011, she co-authored the Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing, which provided an overarching strategy as well as specific recommendations for revitalizing the Nation’s leadership in advanced manufacturing. Dr. Jackson served as the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Jackson was a Professor of Theoretical physics at Rutgers University, where she taught undergraduate and graduate students, conducted research on the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional systems, and supervised Ph.D. candidates. In 2003, she delivered the William Carey Lecture of the AAAS. The National Science Board selected Dr. Jackson as its 2007 recipient of the prestigious Vannevar Bush Award for “a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education, and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy.” Time Magazine (2005) described her as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science,”. She has also been named by DISCOVER magazine as one of the top 50 women in science. She received the prestigious AAAS 2011 Philip Hauge Abelson Award. She was honored by AAAS for her “extraordinary leadership and contributions to the scientific community, government, universities, industries, and future generations of science and engineering professionals.” In 2003, she was named by ESSENCE magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring African-Americans. She received the inaugural America Competes Award for Public Service, awarded by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness on March 6, 2012. In 2010, Dr. Jackson was honored by Black Enterprise magazine with its Women of Power Legacy Award. In 2009, she received the Bouchet Leadership Award Medal, from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University. She also received the 2009 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award, from Diverse Issues Magazine. In 2008, Dr. Jackson received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Ralph Coats Roe Medal. She was honored by AARP The Magazine as one of its ten 2007 Impact Award winners — “extraordinary” people who “have made the world a better place through their innovative thinking, passion, and perseverance.” In 2006, she received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ President’s Award, for her “outstanding contributions to the engineering profession and for her dedication to the promotion of diversity and inclusion in engineering education. In January 2001, she received the “Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award” from the American Association of Physics Teachers. In 1993 she was awarded the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Science (the “Thomas Alva Edison Award”). Dr. Jackson received the 2001 “Immortal Award” for the 15th Annual Black History Makers Award sponsored by Associated Black Charities. Also, in February 2001, she became the first woman to win the Black Engineer of the Year Award by US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. In March 2000, she was awarded the Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academia from the National Society of Black Engineers. In 2000, Dr. Jackson received the “100 Women of Excel

Independent Director, Chairman of Finance Committee, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Organization & Compensation Committee, Member of Nuclear Generation Operations Oversight Committee and Member of Fossil Generation Operations Oversight Committee

Former Director, Chairman of Regulatory Oversight Committee, Member of Regulation Enforcement & Listing Standards Committee, Member of Technology Committee and Chairperson of the Board of NYSE Regulation Inc

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